9A4CU (cant remember ur name sorry ) tnx for the excellent 24 hr coverage map. Considering its usually probably less than 200 km, thats amazing.I didn't see to much VK4 activity chasing the tropo up on the logger, most seemed to not be there in the evenings I did see VK4FLR make some good ones with VK4AFC, 882 km on 2 & 70, was about the best I saw posted up.

Leigh VK2KRRThe Rock Hill, NSW

Station monitoring Tropospheric & Ionospheric propagation 24 hours a day

Nothing here Leigh. I am up early and the radio sits on 146.800. This gives me B/berg FK8 Nth/NSW (never worked from home) and NZ. Have been some rock crushing openings from B/berg but no FK8 .Thanks for the posting.

An awesome BRIEF opening yesterday evening after sundown along the VK4 coast and ranges. Here we see a map of where the station on Mt Tamborine, SW of Brisbane was able to hear. Right up to a vessel in Papua Gulf of around 2300 km. Brisbane coast guard station also did very well. This particular opening lasted only about 1 hour and then faded away.

2300 Km Mt Tamborine

This highlights a situation where well set up stations running 2m WSPR could have exposed this particularly long distance opening very well from Brisbane. Of course, there is no point without stations operating from each end.

Leigh VK2KRRThe Rock Hill, NSW

Station monitoring Tropospheric & Ionospheric propagation 24 hours a day

This really shows how exceptional the current conditions are from VK4 across to New Caledonia. Keep in mind, if you have a look at their stats page http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/statio ... eader=trueYou can see on the right hand top graph, they have hardly heard above 50nm for the past 12 months, but right now that have signals out to 1146 nm! (2122 km)Many areas currently should be able to get to New Caledonia from VK4, even parts of VK2 with good set ups. I have sent a couple of emails to some FK8 stations in the past 30 mins to see if I can get anyone on air or find out status of the repeaters.

FK8 Noumea AIS evening 26.09.13

Leigh VK2KRRThe Rock Hill, NSW

Station monitoring Tropospheric & Ionospheric propagation 24 hours a day

One thing to keep in mind is that the 24 hour maps only appear to update around 0000 UTC each day, but they also have more than one days spots on them, at least 2 or 3 days worth or more, I've not fully checked this out.But even so if you click the past 3 hour link on his stats page http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/statio ... eader=true VK4XPX is doing quite well about 1943 km in the past hour.Thanks for the info I had not been observing VK4XPX station, might have to look more often at this one.

Leigh VK2KRRThe Rock Hill, NSW

Station monitoring Tropospheric & Ionospheric propagation 24 hours a day